A stakeholder is an individual, group, organization, or community that has an interest or stake in a consensus-building process. The goal of stakeholder identification is identify...
Metric access methods (MAMs), such as the M-tree, are powerful index structures for supporting ty queries on metric spaces, which represent a common abstraction for those searchin...
There are many advantages to be gained by storing the lexicon of a full text database in main memory. In this paper we describe how to use a compressed inverted file index to sear...
Abstract. Cluster validation to determine the right number of clusters is an important issue in clustering processes. In this work, a strategy to address the problem of cluster val...
XML is fast becoming the standard format to store, exchange and publish over the web, and is getting embedded in applications. Two challenges in handling XML are its size (the XML...
Paolo Ferragina, Fabrizio Luccio, Giovanni Manzini...